Image copyright Getty Images Sainsbury’s will close 60-70 Argos stores as it adds more of the catalogue shop’s outlets to its own stores. The company will open about 80 Argos outlets in its supermarkets, it said in a trading update. The move comes as the UK’s second largest supermarket chain warned investors that profit for […]
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When Lynn Englum of New York City visited the Republic of Palau in February as part of a travel project exploring places imperiled by climate change, she received an elaborate stamp in her passport. The full-page stamp featured a 59-word promise, addressed to the “Children of Palau,” to “tread lightly, act kindly and explore mindfully.”
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They call themselves dolls. These are cosmetic surgery patients who document their desires and results on Instagram, but only, most say, for other patients or prospective clients. They use names and hashtags that connect the work to their provider. So, for example, KathySmithDoll would be a woman who underwent surgery with a Dr. Kathy Smith.
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Switzerland’s lawmakers have given embattled attorney general Michael Lauber four more years in office despite criticism of his handling of corruption investigations linked to soccer governing body FIFA. Lauber was renewed for a third mandate with the support of 129 federal lawmakers among 243 valid votes on Wednesday. A parliamentary judicial panel had recommended rejecting
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, threatening everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the well-being of hundreds of millions of people living along the coasts. Rising temperatures
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GENEVA — Emergency talks began on Tuesday as delegates from nearly 150 countries tried to prevent a massive disruption to international postal services that could occur if President Trump pulls America out of a United Nations body that has regulated mail services for more than a century. The United States has threatened to leave the
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hunter was known to his bandmates as “the member that doesn’t come on stage with us” Robert Hunter, who wrote some of the Grateful Dead’s most vivid and poetic lyrics, has died at the age of 78. The wordsmith never performed with the band on stage, but was nonetheless
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Image caption Wrightbus is one of Ballymena’s largest employers A large number of employees will be made redundant at Wrightbus later when the firm is placed into administration. The company is suffering from cash flow problems and has been seeking investment or a new owner. The firm, which is the last UK-owned bus manufacturer, is
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A grim new international science assessment concludes that climate change is making the world’s oceans warm, rise, lose oxygen and get more acidic at an ever-faster pace, while melting even more ice and snow. But that’s nothing compared to what Wednesday’s special U.N.-affiliated oceans and ice report says is coming if global warming doesn’t slow
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Ildemaro Vargas had a game-tying pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning on Tuesday and then singled with the bases loaded in the 19th at 1:34 a.m. local time on Wednesday to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Carson Kelly and Nick Ahmed started the final rally with back-to-back singles
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